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|Chief per fess barry wavy of four blue and white base blue a fish hook of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold.</br> | |||
Motto: Nec pluribus impar | |||
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===Origin/meaning=== | ===Origin/meaning=== | ||
A Sperm Whale belonging to the family Physeteride. The badge is a pun on the Name. The badge was approved in 1959, replacing a similar Badge approved from 1936. In the Earlier Badge the Fish Hook was "a grapnel of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold". | |||
[[Literature]]: Image from Pinterest, Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford. | |||
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{{media}} | {{media}} | ||
[[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | [[Category:Military heraldry of the United Kingdom]] | ||
[[Category:Navy heraldry]] | [[Category:Navy heraldry]] | ||
[[Category:Granted 1936]] | |||
[[Category:Granted 1959]] |
Latest revision as of 09:25, 8 November 2023
HMS CACHALOT, ROYAL NAVY
English | Chief per fess barry wavy of four blue and white base blue a fish hook of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold. Motto: Nec pluribus impar |
Origin/meaning
A Sperm Whale belonging to the family Physeteride. The badge is a pun on the Name. The badge was approved in 1959, replacing a similar Badge approved from 1936. In the Earlier Badge the Fish Hook was "a grapnel of four flukes in pale pendant from a cable all gold".
Literature: Image from Pinterest, Information from Admiralty Badges Ecyclopaedia by T.P. Stopford.
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